Nikola Tesla is often cited as geekdom's favorite inventor—advocate of alternating current, pursuer of wireless electricity and the death ray—but some of his beliefs about the future of science and culture wouldn't be quite so popular today. In addition to his predictions about labor-saving robots and his claims that…

The mysterious new science fiction project being directed by Brad Bird keeps getting more interesting. First of all, we learn from the Hollywood Reporter that the movie's codename had changed from 1952 to Tesla — which is just a codename, not the official title. But it's still interesting.

Holy crap this is excellent. Many of you are probably familiar with the intimidating crackle and flash of electricity-generating Tesla coils — but watch what happens when you combine them with wearable suits that behave like Faraday cages. It's like watching a shootout between Raiden and Emperor Palpatine.

We've been following non-profit the Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe's attempts to purchase the Wardenclyffe Tower property, site of inventor Nikola Tesla's last lab. Matthew Inman, creator of the webcomic The Oatmeal, ran an IndieGoGo crowdfunding campaign back in August to raise money to purchase the property and …

Hint: it's the latter.

Last week, we told you about The Oatmeal creator Matthew Inman's mission to purchase the land, laboratory and foundation beneath what was once Nikola Tesla's Wardenclyffe Tower, and to erect a museum in Tesla's honor. At the time, Inman was gunning to raise $850,000 (to be matched dollar-for-dollar by a grant from New…

If there's one crowdfunding project you should look into this week, it's Matthew Inman of the webcomic The Oatmeal's quest to help a non-profit purchase the property on which Nikola Tesla's Wardenclyffe Tower stood so that it can eventually house a Tesla museum. Plus, you might consider funding a docudrama about the…

Sadly, this isn't the cover to some delightful comic in which author HP Lovecraft and inventor Nikola Tesla team up as steampunk ghostbusters. But Travis Pitts' imaginary print ad is wonderful in its own right.

Inspired by steampunk graphic novel The Five Fists of Science, Dr. Horrible Rob Flickenger set out to make his own handheld, field-generating Tesla coil gun.

Nikola Tesla was a brilliant (if sometimes misunderstood) scientist, tinkerer and genius. Thomas Edison was kind of an exploitative creep. You may already know these things, but The Oatmeal's Matt Inman really drives both points home in his latest webcomic, and does so with the twisted mix of hilarious visual aid and…